Why does 'Project ID' field not appear until after you have selected an expense category

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Hi,

Just wondering why you cannot select a project ID until after you have selected an expense category.
My company uses specific categories for different projects so it would be logical to select the project first.

Cheers,

Sam

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RE: Why does 'Project ID' field not appear until after you have selected an expense category

Unfortunately we have personalised the initial page that pops up when you create an expense report, so users cannot fill in a project ID or a purpose here.

This is because we have no use for the purpose field and 1 expense report could be for several different project IDs,

Cheers,

Sam

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RE: Why does 'Project ID' field not appear until after you have selected an expense category

Users are able to submit expense reports fine. The process of which field you fill in first just didn't seem to flow that well to us. Haven't been able to improve it, unfortunately.

Thanks for all the responses.

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RE: Why does 'Project ID' field not appear until after you have selected an expense category

This does make sense as to why project ID wouldn't show from the start, although it's still frustrating that you don't seem to be able to change it.

Cheers,

Sam

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RE: Why does 'Project ID' field not appear until after you have selected an expense category

We do use validation but I have tried turning all forms of it off in our test environment and it doesn't help.

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Sam

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RE: Why does 'Project ID' field not appear until after you have selected an expense category

let us know if our suggestions helped and if the expense report got submitted with/without project

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RE: Why does 'Project ID' field not appear until after you have selected an expense category

Hi Sam,

When employees create an expense report, each expense entered must be associated with an expense category. So the field 'Expense Category' is required, but the field of project ID is not.

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QianQW

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RE: Why does 'Project ID' field not appear until after you have selected an expense category

also check the setup for category validation at project level

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RE: Why does 'Project ID' field not appear until after you have selected an expense category

Please have a look here community.dynamics.com/.../expense-reports-reimagined

at the Expense Fields Visibility topic

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RE: Why does 'Project ID' field not appear until after you have selected an expense category

The 3 options are display, do not display & read only... Project ID is already set to display.

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RE: Why does 'Project ID' field not appear until after you have selected an expense category

There is a standard partly setup (& partly programmed) configuration for handling visibility for different field groups.

Look at Expense Management>>Setup>>General>>Expense Report Fields

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